Chapter 172, they have done their best

As the war progressed, the various forces defending Nanking were approaching their limits, and many of them lost their positions only after the last soldier fell. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, their hard work was destined to be meaningless, and in this tragic battle of defense, they were just pawns left by Lao Jiang to defend their face.

In fact, there were not many garrison troops in Nanjing, in general, there were only the following troops, the 2nd Army Corps Xu Yuanquan's 41st Division, and the 48th Division.

66th Ye Zhao 159th Division, 160th Division.

Wang Jingjiu's 87th Division of the 71st Army, Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division of the 72nd Army, Yu Jishi's 51st Division and 58th Division of the 74th Army.

The 78th Division of Song Xilian of the 36th Army, the 154th Division and the 156th Division of Deng Longguang of the 83rd Army.

Gui Yongqing, 103rd Division, 112th Division and other 14 divisions.

2 military police regiments under the command of the commander of the military police, Xiao Shanling. The 8th Battalion of the 1st Artillery Regiment, the 10th Battalion of the 1st Artillery Regiment, 10 light combat vehicles, the city defense communications battalion, 27 anti-aircraft guns of the Air Defense Command, special forces.

Since the troops participating in the war were basically all troops who had retreated from the battlefield of the Battle of Songhu.

To put it bluntly, all of them were broken troops, and according to the information recorded by General Tan Daoping, chief of staff of the Capital Garrison General Headquarters, who participated in the battle in Nanjing at this time, people can clearly understand that the number of Chinese troops in Nanjing's 14 divisions is only 8. 10,000 people, and 30,000 of them were improvised strong men, with no training at all.

Moreover, most of the troops were weak in firepower, and they were simply unable to block the blow of the Japanese heavy group, and they were able to hold out under the fire of the Japanese completely by using their own sacrifices to block the progress of their enemies.

Although there are still some troops on the way to come, but the water is far away from quenching the thirst, perhaps the city of Nanjing has been breached before these troops arrived.

Li Shunsheng, who had been paying attention to the battle situation in Nanjing, was now very irritable, although he wanted to bring people to support those comrades who fought in Nanjing, but his reason told him that the time was not yet ripe and he needed to wait patiently.

During the time that Li Shunsheng was waiting, the defense of Nanjing slowly came to an end.

When Zhu Chi, the commander of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division, fought bravely to the death under the fierce attack of 30,000 troops of the two divisions of the Japanese, as well as the coordination of aircraft, artillery and tanks, more than 100 remnants of his troops were martyred due to ammunition.

When Yi Anhua, the commander of the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division, was martyred in a bloody battle with the Japanese near Guanghua Gate. When Luo Cequn, the deputy commander of the 159th Division of the 66th Army, led his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese army in Tangshan, in order to cover the 83rd Army from Guangdong, he personally led the remnants of the entire division to charge at Purple Mountain and the 2,000 soldiers of the whole division were martyred. In the 83rd Army, Yao Zhongying, chief of staff of the 156th Division, led the whole division to charge in the east of Zijin Mountain to cover other friendly forces by attacking Qinglong Mountain in Zijin Mountain with the strength of one division, and fought a bloody way. When he took the lead and died tragically.

In the 66th Army, the chief of staff of the 160th Division, Major General Situ Fei, broke through to Jurong and withdrew to Dashui Pass to meet most of the Japanese army, and after three days of fierce fighting, he was killed with thousands of soldiers after being hit by several bullets.

After Gao Zhisong, the commander of the 264th Brigade of the 88th Division, detonated a grenade due to the exhaustion of ammunition and most of the officers and soldiers of the brigade were martyred.

This was the end of the Battle of Nanjing.

"Ready to strike!!" And the time that Li Shunsheng was waiting for also appeared.